asa[e] - Clothes, Used

Please accept my obeisances to Your lotus feet adored Gurudeva!🙏🙏🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🌹🌺🎼🎵

HpS/ASA - AgtSP... Please accept our obeisances at you 'lotus feet'.

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories to You , GuruMaharaja!

Please, I want to ask you a question. I've always heard that in India, people throw away the clothes of their deceased loved ones. In Peru, a Hindu woman once gave several devotees clothes and told us they belonged to her deceased relative. We were happy because they were very pretty. Here in Argentina, I've seen the tendency to buy used clothing... and Frank makes me laugh, saying it's haunted. Sometimes I think she's right. People also sometimes want to give me used clothing. Sometimes I've accepted, but at the same time, I hesitate and think that maybe the clothes contain other people's energy, that it might not help me in my spiritual advancement. Please tell me what is best for spiritual advancement... or rather, as you beautifully put it: to awaken our dormant love.

Your eternal aspirant a servant:

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi

HpS - We do not, agtSP, know precisely what is the answer but we have some information, and if anyone has any more details then please post them for us!

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/2/2/5/

Here it says that Sannyasi should accept torn cloth thrown into the streets.

Wash it and use it.

Of course, Grhasthas, Brahmana grhasthas, are involved in Karma, family, rituals, so they do take more consideration of these things.

If it is in descent condition and washed, then we and other simple devotees like us, even Mother Urmilla Devi Dasi, in the past where quiet happy to buy things a stores like Goodwill, that receive donations, clean them and then resell them.

If they are washed and you pay for them, then 90% of the Karma is done.

In some cases of course it is good, or spiritual Karma.

Prabhupada and his family would usually change there dhoti and saree cloth every two weeks, especially the ladies. Then the remnants, quite fresh, would go to the serving girls and men, and they were quite happy. They took it as a sign of thanks and respect.